MEDIA LAB AFRICA FILMS
Namballa Keita: A Soldier and His Village
Namballa“Namballa Keita: A Soldier and His Village” is the story of a young visionary, who was determined to recover from the trauma of war by forging a better future for his people. It invites us also to question the dystopian reality of our “independent” nations gripped by a crisis of fanaticisms caused by the demise of the very school that carried the hope of Namballa Keita and his generation.
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uKukhumbula uNokutela
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Cemetery Stories
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On Saturday, August 31, 2013, Nokutela Mdima Dube was welcomed into the pantheon of the first South African liberation heroes, when a gravestone was officially unveiled for her, after she had suffered for almost a century the indignity of total oblivion in an unmarked grave in Johannesburg. Read more... |
Cornfields and Tembalihle, two communities in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal(South Africa), resisted forced removals from their land for more than 90 years, first under British colonialism and later under Apartheid. Labeled as “black spots” and “informal settlements”, Read more... |
OBERLIN - INANDA
The Life And Times Of John L. Dube
On April 27,1994, as he was about to consume the first fruits of the triumph of democracy in South Africa, Nelson Mandela traveled from Johannesburg to Inanda, a black township on the outskirts of Durban, one of the poorest in the country, to cast his vote in the first multiracial elections at the historic Ohiange High School. That day Mandela stood with the masses not only to celebrate the future but also and more importantly to invite the nascent nation to join him in saluting the memory of the first of its prophets, John Lan-galibalele Dube, the man who, more than a century earlier, had traveled overseas to bring back to his people the key to their freedom from colonial oppression.
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